The Climate Change Committee is warning the government to prepare for 2°C of warming by 2050, saying “it is clear we are not yet adapted for the changes in weather and climate that we are living with today, let alone those that are expected over coming decades.”

The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) has released the adaptation reports submitted by organisations in England as part of the fourth round of the adaptation reporting process under the Climate Change 2008 Act.

South East Water has published its fourth Climate Change Adaptation Report highlighting how the business will adapt to keep taps flowing while the climate around it changes.

The Climate Change Committee is warning that the Government’s Third National Adaptation Programme falls “far short of what is required” as evidence of the UK’s inadequate response to worsening climate impacts continues to mount.

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) , the UN’s authoritative voice on weather, climate and water, is warning that global temperatures are likely to surge to record levels in the next five years, fuelled by heat-trapping greenhouse gases and a naturally occurring El Niño event.

The National Infrastructure Commission and Climate Change Committee have written jointly to government calling for urgent action improve the resilience of key infrastructure services to the effects of climate change.

The Environment Agency has published an accessible version summary document of its third adaptation report Living better with a changing climate to Defra under the adaptation reporting power of the Climate Change 2008 Act which was first published in October 2021.

The Climate Change Committee is warning that the UK is still “strikingly unprepared” to tackle the impacts of climate change which will intensify over coming decades, leaving the UK vulnerable without better resilience planning and preparation.

The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs has launched a major new consultation on its plans for the fourth round of climate change adaptation reporting – including filling gaps in the existing knowledge base where the climate resilience of some crucial UK infrastructure is not known.

The Environment Agency has launched a new campaign to raise awareness of actions Grimsby residents can take to prepare for flooding – 15 years on since the town flooded in summer 2007 and 70 years on from the east coast storm surge.